When I first came across a little booklet called My Heart, Christ’s Home, it gave me a picture I’ve never quite forgotten. In it, the author Robert Boyd Munger writes:
“He entered with me and looked around. ‘This room is really not fit for me,’ He said. ‘Will you give it to Me?’”
The imagery is simple. Our heart is like a house, and when we invite Jesus in, He does not just linger in the entryway. He begins to walk through every room. The living room. The kitchen. The study. The bedroom. Even the closet.
This picture aligns with a reflection I recently came across from Renovare Spiritual Formation:
Your life includes all of you. Work you. Home you. Church you. Private and public you.
A person of integrity is someone whose life is seamless, whose many “yous” are one and the same, who is good through and through.
And here is the challenge. We all have rooms we are tempted to keep locked.
Maybe Jesus is welcome in my devotional life but not my digital habits.
Maybe I am open to His guidance in parenting but resistant when it comes to forgiveness.
Maybe I say He is Lord but still treat some areas like they are mine alone.
But true transformation means we open the door to every room to Christ’s presence and direction. Not out of guilt or fear. But because we trust that Jesus is better at arranging our lives than we are.
What room is He gently knocking on today?
Lord, I want to be a whole person, the same in every space and every role. Not split or compartmentalized, but honest and open before You. Come into every room of my life. Rearrange what needs rearranging. Clean out what needs to go. Fill each part with Your presence, until the whole house is truly Yours. Amen.